Bruce Tate

Bruce Tate

Bio

Bruce Tate is a mountain biker, climber, and father of two from Austin, Texas. As the Chief Technology Officer of icanmaketibetter.com, the revolutionary social innovation and market research platform, he is responsible for leading all technology and developing industry leading agile solutions for voice-of-customer feedback in the social age. As an author, he has written more than ten books, the award winning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. He's the editor of the Seven in Seven series.

Chris McCord

Chris McCord

Bio

Chris McCord is a programmer with a passion for science and building things and the creator of the Phoenix Web Framework. He spends his days crafting web applications at Littlelines and currently splits his time between the Ruby and Elixir programming languages. His current interests focus on new web technologies, distributed programming, and teaching others the tools of the trade.

Devin Torres

Clutch Analytics

Devin Torres

Bio

Professional Elixir developer and OTP evangelist. Author of several Erlang and Elixir libraries of varying popularity.

Eric Meadows-Jönsson

Eric Meadows-Jönsson

Bio

Eric Meadows-Jönsson is part of the team behind the Elixir programming language and has created many open source projects in Elixir, including Hex: a package manager, and Ecto: a language integrated query for Elixir. He is in his last year working on a Master of Science in Computer Science at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.

Filipe Varjão

Student

Filipe Varjão

Bio

Filipe is a doctoral student at U.F.PE, Brazil, as well as a linux enthusiast, and open source contributor.

Francesco Cesarini

Francesco Cesarini

Bio

Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd.
He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications.
In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions.
He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming, a book published by O’Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/OTP.
He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University.
You can follow his ramblings on twitter @francescoc.

Greg Vaughn

Greg Vaughn

Bio

Greg has worked professionally in 6 languages, currently in Ruby at LivingSocial, but his free time goes to learning Elixir. He taught himself to program at age 13, but took a detour into physics during college. He's a 7th generation Texan currently living in the Dallas area.

James Smith

James Smith

Bio

James works at Gaslight and has I've been lucky enough to be a part the wonderful Cincinnati programming community for a number of years. He spends most of this days working on Ruby on Rails and Rich Client applications. He has more recently been learning functional programming and working with Elixir to solve both small and large problems.

Josh Adams

Josh Adams

Bio

I'm the CTO of Isotope11, a mildly successful software development company that focuses on Ruby, JavaScript, and Erlang/Elixir. I'm also responsible for http://www.elixirsips.com, a screencast series wherein I walk through elixir as I learn it, and record 2 shortish (5-12 minutes, occasionally longer) videos per week. I've also been a co-author and a technical reviewer for multiple books on the Arduino microprocessor and Ruby, and have had a lot of fun doing robotics with Ruby as well. I'm currently aiming to bring that robotics fun to Erlang (or Elixir).

Martin Schurrer

Martin Schurrer

Bio

Seasoned Rails developer who got into Erlang and recently Elixir.

Richard Bishop

Consultant

Richard Bishop

Bio

Richard is a long time Rubyist that, like many others, has found the same joy in Elixir that Ruby gave him at first. After a short career in Sales and a lightning storm, Richard suddenly started teaching himself how to program and hasn't looked back since. When he isn't trying to perfect his craft at programming (read: bashing his head against the keyboard), he is probably enjoying craft beer and coffee with his lovely wife Tracy.

Robert Virding

Robert Virding

Bio

Co-inventor of Erlang, Principal Language Expert @ Erlang Solutions
Robert Virding recently joined Erlang Solutions Ltd as Principal Language Expert. While at Ericsson AB, Robert Virding was one of the original members of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, and co-inventor of the Erlang language. He took part in the original system design and contributed much of the original libraries, as well as to the current compiler. While at the lab he also did a lot of work on the implementation of logic and functional languages and on garbage collection. He has also worked as an entrepreneur and was one of the co-founders of one of the first Erlang startups (Bluetail). Robert Virding also worked a number of years at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) Modelling and Simulations Group. He co-authored the first book (Prentice-Hall) on Erlang, and is regularly invited to teach and present throughout the world.

Stephen Pallen

E-MetroTel

Stephen Pallen

Bio

Stephen Pallen has been the R&D leader at E-MetroTel for the past 4 years, responsible for introducing several new PBX products. He has over 20 years experience as a software engineering leader, manager, architect, trainer, and developer in the development of unified communications software and web applications with companies like Nortel, AT&T, Avaya, and as an independent consultant. He has been programming with Elixir for less than a year.

Hyatt Place Austin, Arboretum

Reserving a Room

You can now reserve rooms in either of two ways:

By calling Hyatt Reservations at +1 877 242-3654, and requesting a room reservation using group code G-ELIX. The Reservations Agent will be able to quote availability of the group rate on the requested dates, and reserve one of the group rooms for you.

If no rooms are available, tweet @jimfreeze to add more rooms to the block. If you have any questions about the reservations process, please let us know.

Code of Conduct

ElixirConf is a community conference created to promote education, networking and collaboration within the Elixir/Erlang communities.

We value the participation of each member of the community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Attendees are expected to act with decorum, showing respect and acceptance to other attendees throughout the conference, and at all conference events, whether officially sponsored by ElixirConf or not.

All delegates, speakers, exhibitors, and volunteers at ElixirConf are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct. Organizers will implement this code throughout the event.

Be honest

Use respectful language and actions

Be inclusive

Respect culture and custom

Consider your actions and act with integrity

Use good judgment and avoid even the appearance of improper behavior

Follow the law

Be accountable

If ever in doubt about a course of conduct, ask yourself:

Is it ethical?

Is it legal?

Will it reflect well on me as well as ElixirConf?

Would I want to read about it in the newspaper or on the web?

If the answer is “No” to any of these questions, don’t do it.

We want to thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly event for all.

Speakers, attendees, exhibitors, sponsors and vendors are subject to the code of conduct. Speakers, sponsors and exhibitors should not use profane, vulgar or sexual images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not wear revealing clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment.

Talks should be appropriate for both a professional audience, and a younger audience. Imagery and language (both written and spoken), are to be free of profane, vulgar or sexual content.

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in behavior that violates this code of conduct, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.

Contact Information

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff. Conference staff will be wearing "Staff" t-shirts. You may also contact the venue staff and ask to be put in touch with the conference organizer — Jim Freeze.

Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.